CENTER for WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES

The University of at 2005-2006, Vol. VIII, No. 2

Newsletter of the CENTER for WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES

Director’s Column In this issue: Gretchen Ritter June 2006 Graduating MA Students" " " 3

I have just come from a planning meeting for next year’s Community Advisory Board" " " 4 annual theme events. To have fourteen talented, good 13th Annual Student Conference" " " humored, and accomplished people show up for such a 5 meeting on a hot day in late June is indicative of the Bibliographer’s Corner# # # 6 excitement and interest that surrounds our topic for next year which is Gender, Politics and Leadership. The group Academic News" " " 7 that met included two deans, another center director, and CWGS Affiliate News" " " 8 faculty from six schools or colleges. As always, I feel privileged to work with such a wonderful group of faculty, Student Award Honorees" " " 11 and I am struck by the depth and range of our program’s interdisciplinary contribution to the mission of the university Hillary Hart presents Lynn Miller with the Gilbert Over the course of this coming year we will focus on Teaching Award at the 2006 Spring Awards Reception. different aspects of this broad theme. In the fall, we are co- sponsoring a conference on October 19 & 20 with the Law School that is entitled Gender and Labor: What’s Working? This conference will provide a critical examination of labor governance (broadly conceived) in the US and its impact on women.! There are several factors that make these particularly challenging times for working women, the labor movement, and women's advocacy groups.! Political conservatism, labor movement weakness, economic globalization, and debates over immigration are just some of the challenges being faced by the allies of working women in the US these days.

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annual theme Our annual theme for the 2006-2007 academic year is Gender, Politics, and women’s and gender studies Leadership. Our workshops, conferences, colloquia, and film screenings are always open to the entire UT community and the broader public. 2006 http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/events/ Pictured Left to Right: Jackie Salcedo (CWGS - Graduate Coordinator), Finally, on the topic of leadership, we would like to Dr. Susan Wood (former Director of the Women’s Health Office at the FDA), explore how leadership is created and made manifest in Gretchen Ritter (CWGS - Director), and Sarah Wheat (NARAL Texas) diverse communities and in a variety of areas such as science, politics, higher education, community advancement, business, law, and the arts. How might we encourage young women, especially those from less advantaged backgrounds, to become leaders and to join fields where there are too few women? How do women leaders emerge and what style of leadership do they exercise?

Is there a distinctively feminist form of leadership or empowerment that we can identify and learn from? Interdisciplinary teaching and research centers such as CWGS have a special role to play in the advancing of diversity in leadership.

For more information, please visit: The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the http://www.rhtp.org/science/SusanWoodRoadShow.asp University of Michigan recently held a conference that brought together representatives from different universities to discuss the mission of fostering diversity in Director’s Column - Continued higher education. Diversity in higher education matters because education is the gateway to social opportunity There are also innovative and interesting alternatives being and leadership in our society. It also matters because considered and tried. We want to highlight some of these our social experiences shape our approach to learning alternatives. The topics we will focus on include women in and intellectual innovation, so the presence of students, the labor movement, workplace discrimination, work and researchers, or faculty from diverse social backgrounds family issues, and trade governance as a labor issue. Each creates a learning environment in which we learn to see of the panels will include a mix of academics from different the world from different angles of view, opening us up to disciplines and representatives of nonprofit and advocacy new approaches to knowledge and understanding. organizations. The participants include nationally Finally, diversity in higher education matters because we recognized scholars, legal advocates, political live in a diverse world where our economic and political representatives, and labor leaders. I expect the conference success depends upon our ability to communicate and to draw national attention work with people who are different from ourselves. This coming year, the Center will host events that highlight During the spring semester we will be cosponsoring a the importance of diversity and leadership in higher colloquium series on Diversity and Religion in American education and in society more generally. Public Life. Our co-sponsoring include the Religious Studies Program and the LBJ Library. Events of recent years have made us all more aware of the role that religion plays in shaping our communities and our politics – whether it be in debates over gay marriage or concerns about the religious Announcing the CWGS Fall Conference divisions that have contributed to the conflicts in the Middle East. Too often, however, our understanding of the role of Gender and Labor: religion in politics and public life is based on stereotyped views about Christian conservatives in the US or Islamic What’s Working? fundamentalists in the Middle East. This series is designed to create a broader dialogue and exploration of the role that religion plays in organizing American public life in different social and faith-based communities. Beyond the October 19 & 20, 2006 colloquium series, this coming year we will be sponsoring other events on gender and religion in other parts of the Co-Sponsored by the UT Law School world.

2 assistant for a Center of Mexican American Studies (CMAS) Graduating MA STUDENTS course on The History of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., a graduate representative on CMAS 35th Anniversary Planning Laura Jo Gladney-Lemon Committee, and a volunteer for Interfaith Care Alliance Laura Gladney-Lemon first came to UT as a advocating AIDS awareness in Austin. Sonia’s faculty transfer student from the University of Oregon supervisors were Dana Cloud, Ph.D., and Emilio Zamora, in spring of 2002, graduating in August of Ph.D. 2004 with a BA in Government. During her tenure at UT she has been active on campus hosting a community programming show on Rebecca Moody KVRX, writing a column for , Rebecca Moody came to Austin and working in the Women’s Resource Center. from Arkansas and Oklahoma by Laura also served on the UT Student way of Washington, DC and Government. Laura’s Thesis is called, “The Atlanta, where she worked with Real World: Size Discrimination and Fat Activism.” both local and national women’s Laura’s faculty supervisor was Lisa Moore, Ph.D. advocacy organizations. This experience not only showed Rebecca the importance of Melissa Koonce merging advocacy with academic Melissa Koonce is interested in theory but also forced her to research including sociology of begin formulating her most basic queer communities, (de/re) research question: beyond how, constructions of gendered why? Rebecca’s research identities, and performance as a revolves around the role women’s bodies play in and for their site of activism. Her Master's communities. Her thesis, “(Im)Pure Thoughts: Rethinking Thesis, ''Identity Construction and Women’s Ritual and Physical Impurity,” examines Community Building in Austin's menstruation as a ritual and physical impurity and its role in a King Culture,'' is an community during times of chaos. She looks forward to ethnographic project aimed at presenting her analysis of women’s impurity in Judaism at examining a local moment in the WOCMES2, the Second World Congress for Middle Eastern c o n t e m p o r a r y d r a g k i n g Studies, in Amman, Jordan this June. Rebecca feels performance movement. As an artist, Melissa explores academic passionately about women’s and gender studies as an theory through her performance work and incorporates her academic discipline and its role in exposing students to performance experiences into her understandings of theory. As feminist-centered dialogue. In addition to her research, she an activist scholar, she strives to generate social and political is an editor of Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in impact through her research. As a mother, she permits her lived Review Across Disciplines, a peer-reviewed graduate student realities to shape her feminist politics. Melissa is firmly committed journal, and co-coordinates the “CWGS Brown Bag for to the success of gender studies as an academic discipline. She is Graduate Students” series. Rebecca’s faculty supervisor was co-coordinator for the CWGS Brown Bags for Graduate Students Faegheh Shirazi, Ph.D. series, worked on staff of the CWGS Journal, Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines, and served on the organizing committee for the Emerging Scholarship in Women's Andria Salucka and Gender Studies Conference held in April 2006. Melissa’s Andria Salucka graduated from the faculty supervisor was Dorie Gilbert, Ph.D. University of Northern Iowa in 2001 with a degree in psychology. She came to the University of Texas after Sonia Montoya working for two years at the Houston Sonia Melitta D. Montoya is a UT Area Women’s Center, a non-profit that provides direct services to Graduate Recruitment Fellow and David survivors of domestic and sexual Burton Jr. Fellow. Sonia came to Austin violence. Andria’s thesis, “Restorative from San Jose State University, Justice: Is Austin, Texas Ready for an California as a McNair Scholars Fellow Alternative Approach to Domestic with a BS in Public Relations and a Violence?” examines the intersection minor in Women's Studies. Her of restorative justice and domestic research reexamines the history of the violence, identifying the most critical factors to consider when 1950-52 Local 890, Empire Zinc strike determining whether or not, and how, to develop, implement, in Bayard, New Mexico through the and support a restorative justice initiative addressing domestic lens of women. Her thesis, “Voicing violence. In addition to her research, Andria enjoys spending Solidarity, The Ladies Auxiliary: The time with her husband, dog and cat and volunteering with the Retelling of the Empire Zinc Strike,” retells the history of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. She loves to run and in April longest strike in New Mexico's history using auto-ethnography had the honor of competing in the 110th Boston Marathon. methodology to document women's life histories who participated Andria’s faculty supervisors were Noël Bridget Busch, Ph.D. in the women's delegation the Ladies Auxiliary, who victoriously succeeded the strike. In addition to her research, she is a teaching and Marilyn P. Armour, Ph.D. 3 CWGS Community Advisory Board former mayor Kirk Watson to serve on the 1998 City of Austin Citizen Bond Committee. The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies is pleased to announce the formation of our new Community Advisory Marta Cotera – Chicana feminist activist, scholar, and Board. Within the the central Texas area there are many librarian. Since the 1960s, she has been active both in the organizations and individuals that seek to promote gender Chicano movement, and in documenting the role of women equity and to understand and improve the lives of women, within the movement. She is best known for her book, Sol y Hembra, one of the first and best histories of Mexican girls, and families. We applaud their efforts and endeavor to American women, and their contributions to civil rights and provide scholarly support for their work. Our new Chicana/o history. Community Advisory Board includes representatives from business, the arts, education, and advocacy organizations that are involved in such efforts. We plan to work with these Lulu Flores – Attorney and community leader. Flores is the legislative coordinator for the Mexican-American Bar distinguished community leaders to plan programs and Association, vice president of public affairs at the MexicArte workshops that allow our faculty and students to learn from Museum, is serving her second term on the diversity and the experience and expertise of community members and outreach section of the National Women's Political Caucus, that provide scholarly support to groups seeking to and is immediate past president of the Texas Political Caucus. understand and advance the position of women and girls. She also served two terms as chair of the Women's Advocacy We will also seek the board’s assistance in our development Board and was on its board for 10 years. efforts, so that we can achieve financial security for our programs. Cynthia Levinson – Educational consultant, community activist, and author. Levinson used to work for the Texas Linda Aaker – Attorney, author of A Women’s Odyssey, active Education Agency. She is active in the Austin Interfaith participant in environmental and political causes. She is a Alliance and in the Breast Cancer Resource Center. freelance writer and the former Chief of the Antitrust Division of the Texas Attorney General’s office. She also served on the Catherine Mauzy – Attorney and community activist. advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mauzy is regarded as one of the leading family law practitioners in the state. She is also involved in reproductive rights and other progressive causes. She is Cathy Bonner – Business woman and philanthropist. She is currently the chairperson of the NARAL Pro-Choice Board. the founder of the Women’s Museum in Dallas. She also helped Last fall, she helped to lead the anti-Prop 2 campaign. to found Leadership Texas and is on the board of directors for the Foundation for Women’s Resources. She was the Executive Director of the Department of Commerce under Governor Rachel Muir – Social Entrepreneur and Business Leader. Ann Richards. She is the founder and executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit organization that empowers girls to excel in math Evan Carton – Director of the Humanities Institute and and science. Professor of English at UT Austin. Carton is a community leader whose research interests include abolition and social reform in Regina Rogoff – Executive Director of People’s the U.S. Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, was Community Clinic, a not-for-profit primary care clinic published this year by Free Press. providing affordable health care for uninsured central Texans. Prior to joining PCC, Regina was Executive Director of Legal Sheryl Cole – Public Accountant, former president of the Lee Aid of Central Texas for twenty years. She serves on the Elementary PTA, and member of the Austin City Council. Cole Board of Capital I.D.E.A. and is a co-chair of Austin Interfaith. currently serves on the Board of Leadership Austin and the She is the immediate past-president of the Austin Area Austin Area Urban League, and is a former Board member of Human Services Association and secretary of the Indigent Communities in Schools.! Sheryl also served as Tri-Chair of the Care Collaboration. 2004 AISD Citizen Bond Committee, and was appointed by (Continued - Page 6)

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4 13th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Conference by Stephanie Green

In April the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies held its 13th annual conference highlighting graduate and undergraduate student work. The conference highlighted the Center’s interdisciplinary focus as papers were presented by students and faculty chairs culled presented their ongoing work studying queer from a broad range of departments, including identities within the Austin Community. First-year American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, students Starr Corbin and Jamie Madden also Comparative Literature, English, Germanic Studies, presented their respective papers “Women, War Government, History, Radio-Television-Film, Social and Gender Regulation” and “Post-feminist Work, Sociology, the School of Nursing and the Philosophy and (some) Contemporary Popular Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies. For the Fiction Texts as Forms of Deceptive Liberation: The first time, the call for papers included other central Third Wave Responds.” The conference also Texas universities. Among the students included in the included a workshop organized by the members of conference was Laura Young an undergraduate the graduate, student-run, interdisciplinary journal student in English from Concordia University. Intersections (pictured above).

The conference included panels focused on both local The Center invited two plenary speakers from and international studies and contemporary and Planned Parenthood: Jennifer Brown, Southern historical debates. Topics included: “Constructing Region Field Manger and Danielle Tierney, Public Narratives of Kin and Family,” “Social Construction of Affairs Director for the Texas Capital Region the Body,” “Women’s Roles in Shifting Political (pictured in left column). The joint presentation, Systems” and “Gendered Cultural Artifacts.” The “Stand Up For Choice: Community Organizing for panel “Queer Austin: Identities, Representations and Reproductive Rights” discussed the timely debate Communities” was chaired by Dr. Laurie Green from and followed the theme of community based work the Department of History. It included papers by Kyle presented in many of the panels. Brillante and Mel Koonce, from the MA Program, who CWGS would like to thank everyone who helped make the conference a great success.

All CWGS PORTFOLIO STUDENTS are required to present at the Annual CWGS Student Conference in the Spring.

If you have questions about portfolio requirements, please contact the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies office. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/ cwgs/graduate/portfolios/

5 CWGS Community Advisory Board CWGS Welcomes New Staff Member

(Continued from Page 4) Kathleen McDonagh joins the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies as our new Nancy Scanlan – Professional award-winning photographer and long-time community leader. In addition to her work with Senior Administrator. Kathleen comes to our Save Our Springs Alliance in Austin, she is a board member of offices from the University of Texas Library. KMFA, classical radio station in Austin, TX; Texas Photographic Society, and Advisory Councils of the University of Texas School We are very pleased to have her on our team! of Architecture and the Ransom Center.

Martha Smiley – Businesswoman and and community leader. She is a co-founding shareholder of Grande Communications. Her corporate and community leadership is reflected in her public and community service positions including: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System; Board President, Bibliographer's Corner SafePlace Foundation Board; President, KLRU Public Television by Lindsey Schell Board; President, Foundation for Women's Resources Board, and a founding member of Leadership Texas and Leadership America. The UT Libraries has recently upgraded our campus Judge Bea Ann Smith – Justice on the Texas Court of subscription to CQ Weekly, published by Congressional Appeals, Third District. She also is the first Texas judge to serve Quarterly and now available in electronic format. CQ as president of the National Association of Women Judges. She is Weekly is considered the most authoritative, non-partisan on the faculty of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New source on current legislative activity. The content includes York University Law School and is an adjunct professor at the feature-length articles on the full spectrum of policy University of Texas Law School. In 1999 she won the issues, focused updates on legislative activity, floor vote Outstanding Achievement award by the Women Lawyers reports and side-by-side comparisons of competing Association. She is a member of Leadership Texas and the Texas versions of bills. The online product holds reports and Journal of Women and the Law and the Journal of Texas Administrative Law.! articles back to 1983 and can be searched by keyword, date, bill number or committee.! Renowned for its accurate, thorough reporting and accessible "outside the Gerald Torres – Professor of Law, UT Austin, is the former Beltway" language, CQ weekly is a favorite of Congress- president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). watchers as well as Congress members.! Torres has served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as counsel to This tool is an excellent resource for advanced then U.S. attorney general Janet Reno. His latest book, The researchers in government, politics, public affairs, Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming economics and history as well as a good tool for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002) with Harvard law undergraduates writing position papers. professor Lani Guinier, was described by Publisher's Weekly as "one of the most provocative and challenging books on race To use CQ Weekly online, visit: produced in years." Torres was honored with the 2004 Legal http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=430! Service Award from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for his work to advance the legal As always, if you would like assistance with this or any rights of Latinos. other library resource, please contact me at [email protected] or 495-4119. Donna Van Fleet – Chairperson of the Board of Directors for GENAustin, the Girl’s Empowerment network, which seeks Now is also a great time to think about including a library to foster healthy self-esteem in girls by engaging them to research session in your fall syllabi. Let me know if you explore and define their personal values and to build skills that would like to schedule a workshop for your class or empower them with the confidence and courage to make wise collaborate on creating a research assignment. choices. Van Fleet is the former vice president for development at IBM. She is also a director on the boards of the Girl Scouts Lone Star Council, Ballet Austin, The Long Center for the Performing Arts, St. Edward's University, Jane's Due Process and the United Way Capital Area.

6 CWGS MA Graduate Program: Academic News We are very excited to be at the start of a new academic by Associate Director & Graduate Adviser Susan Sage year. The sequence of our WGS Foundations courses has Heinzelman, Graduate Coordinator Alma Jackie Salcedo been restructured to allow completion by a student's first year in the program. Foundations I will be taken in the Fall semester, and Foundations II & III will be taken in the Spring semester. We believe this will better prepare our students to research their ideas (for their thesis or report) during the crucial summer in between their first and second year.

The Center for Women's and Gender Studies is pleased to welcome another cohort this year. We have an excellent group of students from diverse backgrounds including Texas, Mississippi, India, Iran, and even an International Ford Foundation Fellow from Uganda.

Our next Student Conference will be held in the Spring semester in April. We would like to remind all WGS MA and Portfolio Program Students that their participation is required.

The undergraduate degree plan is now available online: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/content/degree_plans/ 2006_2008_catalog/WGS06-08.pdf

CWGS Undergraduate Program*: As the WGS undergraduate major approaches the final stages of approval, preparation is underway to welcome students into the department. The Center for Women's and Gender Studies encourages all undergraduate students who are interested in the major to visit the advisors in the College of Liberal Arts.

CWGS staff is receiving training during June 2006 to better assist new WGS majors. One of the advantages of belonging to the Women's and Gender Studies program is the individual attention that students will receive. CWGS would like to invite our undergraduate students to come visit our offices in Walter Webb Hall (Campus Club) building, and get to know our faculty and staff.

(*Pending Approval) 7 Janet Staiger, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Christine Williams, and Pascale Bos CWGS Affiliate NEWS pose with their books at the CWGS Reflections BookPeople book party.

On April 28th, BookPeople hosted a Reflections book party to celebrate a sample of CWGS faculty affiliate publications. For more information on future Reflections events, please contact CWGS Associate Director Susan Sage Heinzelman.

Books featured included - German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address by Pascale Bos (Germanic Studies); Utopia In Performance: Finding Hope At The Theater by Jill Dolan (Theatre and Dance); Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women's Studies by Elizabeth Engelhardt (American Studies); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege by Robert Jensen (Journalism); Media

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies hopes to host a Reflections event at least once a semester. The Spring 2006 book party at BookPeople was well attended.

Reception Studies by Janet Staiger (Radio- Sharon Brown (College of Pharmacy) has Television-Film); The Power Of The People by Sean been appointed as the new Chair of the Health Services Theriault (Government); and Inside Toyland: Working, Organization and Delivery (HSOD) Study Section at the Shopping, and Social Inequality by Christine Williams National Institutes of Health, effective July 2006. (Sociology). Cynthia Buckley (Sociology) has been awarded research Mary Lou Adams (School of Nursing) has received the grants from the International Research Exchange, the 2005-2006 Award of Excellence from the Austin Advanced National Council for East European and Eurasian Studies Practice Nurses (APNs). Adams' research focuses on the and the American Councils for International Education for health-promoting behaviors of women, particularly of her research on labor out-migration, gender and health in the minority women, who often are part of under-served southern Caucasus. The research focuses on the ways in populations. which male labor out-migration in the region influences female gender roles, household economic security and Katherine Arens (Germanic Studies) received a Mellon health behaviors, including HIV/STD risk related behaviors. Foundation/SCMLA Fellowship for work at the HRC in summer, 2006: "Making Science American: How Migration Changed Intellectual Culture"—part of a book-in-progress Noel Busch (Social Work) was awarded the Council on on the history of science, 1870-WWI. She was also an Social Work Education’s Distinguished Recent Contributions Invited Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of to Social Work Education in March 2006. Science, Berlin, Germany, June 9-11th 2006. Jill Dolan's (Theatre and Dance) newest book, Utopia in Pascale Bos (Germanic Studies) published "Feminists Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, was published in Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin 1945; December 2005 by University of Michigan Press. In Spring Yugoslavia 1992-3" in Signs volume 31, issue 4, (Summer) 2006, she was appointed a new member of the Academy of 2006. Distinguished Teachers here at UT.

8 Elizabeth Engelhardt (American Robert Jensen (Journalism) recently published The Heart Studies) has published Beyond of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege Hill and Hollow (Ohio University (City Lights Books). Press) an anthology of scholarship on Appalachian Barbara Jones (Social Work) has been elected President Women’s Studies. of The Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers, a National social work organization. Rowena Fong (Social Work) was announced as a faculty LeeAnn Kahlor (Advertising) has partnered with recipient of the 2006-2007 Office “RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association” to examine of Graduate Studies Research the time spent by infertile individuals accessing infertility- Internship (RI) Program. related information and support groups, including those currently available on the Web and outcomes related to that Dawn Fowler (Social Work) is information seeking. the Principal Investigator on research projects examining Mary Kearney (Radio, Television, issues affecting women who are survivors of intimate and Film) has been selected to partner abuse including spirituality and substance abuse. participate in the UT Humanities Dr. Fowler is currently evaluating The SafePlace Domestic Institute in Spring 2007. Also, her Violence Agency’s Child and Adolescent Counseling first book, Girls Make Media Program, funded by the Dell Corporation. She also (Routledge, 2006), has just been presented on Substance Abuse: A Leading Health Care released. Issue Among Ethnic Minorities at The 20th Annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights, Health Care Disparities: Naomi Lindstrom (Spanish and A Civil Rights Issue in April, 2006. Portuguese) has recently been named to two editorial boards: Lucia Gilbert (Vice-Provost) is the Principal Investigator Hojas del Cila-vario: Revista de for the Difficult Dialogues grant from the Ford Foundation, Literatura y de Cultura Argentinas with other faculty members including CWGS Affiliated (an Argentine on-line literary journal Faculty members Ann Cvetkovich (English), Pauline scheduled to begin publication in Strong (Anthropology), and Paige Schilt (Connexus). August 2006), and Modern Jewish She also published “Therapeutic Relationships” in The Studies (the annual issue of the journal Yiddish open to Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health, studies of Jewish writing in any language. which she co-wrote with Lisa K. Kearney. Tracy McMillan (Architecture) is co-author of a journal Susanne Hafner (Germanic Studies), with a special article, being published in Children, Youth, and Environment, award from the College of Liberal Arts, conducted research called “Johnny can walk to school— Can Jane? Examining at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana as Visiting Scholar at sex differences in children’s active travel to school.” She also the American Academy in Rome last December. In April, gave a talk, broadcasted on C-SPAN Radio on May 21, her year as the Mellon Fellow in Medieval Studies at the 2006, called “Safe Routes to School: a transportation policy’s Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame was impact on child and family health.” concluded with a symposium on her book in progress, Virgilian Masculinities: Medieval Readings of the Aeneid. Lynn Miller (Theatre and Dance) was awarded the Lucia, Her book Maskulinität in der höfischen Erzählliteratur was John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award in featured as the subject of the 2006 New Books Roundtable Women’s and Gender Studies for the 2005-2006 academic by the Society for Medieval German Studies at the 41st year. International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May. She also published an article on "Erzählen im Ann Reynolds (Art and Art History) will spend the fall of Raum: Der Schmalkaldener Iwein" and gave papers at the 2006 at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA and the University of Notre Dame, the Center for Epigraphical and spring of 2007 on a Dean’s Fellowship to work on a new Palaeographical Studies at Ohio State University, and book-length project Playtime: delivered the John Boswell Memorial Lecture at the College Creativity and Community in New of William and Mary in April. York, 1940-1970. This spring, she was the first recipient of the The Teaching Company, which produces DVDs and CDs of College of Fine Arts Distinguished lectures by university professors, selected Susan Sage Teaching Award. Heinzelman (English), to be featured on its Web site. Heinzelman's course, titled “Representing Justice: Stories Gretchen Ritter (Government, of Law and Literature,” is one of The Teaching Company's Women’s & Gender Studies new course offerings. Director) has published The Constitution as Social Design: Neville Hoad (English) was announced as a faculty Gender and Civic Membership in recipient of the 2006-2007 Office of Graduate Studies the American Constitutional Order Research Internship (RI) Program. (Stanford University Press).

9 Dean Victoria Rodriguez receives the Contributor of the Dean Victoria Rodriguez (Graduate Studies) and Christine Williams (Sociology) were both honored as Year Award from CWGS Director Gretchen Ritter. Contributors of the Year at the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies 2006 Spring Awards Reception.

Michele Rountree (Social Work) received a Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations from UT's School of Nursing to conduct a pilot study on a HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention for Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Abuse.

Loriene Roy (School of Information) received the 2006 Equality Award from the American Library Association for outstanding contribution toward promoting quality in librarianship. She was elected ALA President-Elect and President-Elect of the ALA-Allied Professional Association, the first indigenous person to serve in these offices. She was selected as ALA Executive Board Liaison to the American Indian Library Association and Liaison to ALISE, the Association of Library and Information Science Education. She also joins the Board of the Freedom to Read Foundation. Kathleen Tyner (Radio- Pauline Strong (Anthropology) won the UT-Austin 2006 Television-Film) participated with Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. With co-editor experts from around the world in a Sergei Kan, she published New Perspectives on Native recent documentary about the North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations digital divide for Asociación de (Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 2006). She also T e l e v i s i ó n E d u c a t i v a gave a presentation on "Captivity and Vengeance in Iberoamericana in Madrid, Spain. Colonial and Postcolonial Empires" at the Gender and The documentary, “La Brecha Empire Conference, American University, Cairo, Egypt. Digital,” was broadcast throughout Spain in May and will be distributed widely to countries in Janet Swaffar (Germanic Latin America and South America. Studies) and Katherine Arens In June, Professor Tyner was also (Germanic Studies) announce keynote speaker for “Media their new book Remapping the L i t e r a c y : O v e r s e a s Foreign Language Curriculum: Conversations” at the Chelsea Museum in New York City. An Approach through Multiple The series is a project of the Museum of Television and Literacies (Modern Language Radio, The Chelsea Art Museum and the European Association, 2005). Observatory of Children's Television in Barcelona, Spain.

Sean Theriault (Government) Christine Williams (Sociology) has published Inside was awarded the President's Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality Associates Teaching Excellence (University of California Press). Christine Williams was also Award and recently published a faculty recipient of the 2006-2007 Office of Graduate The Power of The People (Ohio Studies Research Internship (RI) Program. State University Press).

Join the WGS Student Organization. Janet Todd (Kinesiology & Health Education) was elected as President of the History Open to all students interested in women’s Academy of the American Alliance for Health Physical and gender issues! Education Recreation & Dance. She will serve one year as Visit: http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/ President elect, and then as President in 2007-2008 Keyword : Gender

10 Margaret Magness, Community; Fawn Mahajan, M.E.L.C.; Linda Manning, Women’s and Gender Studies 300 Club TN; Susan Marshall, Sociology; Chris Maziar, University of Minnesota; Founding Members Jessica McFaddin, Community; Karline McLain, Asian Studies, (UT Graduate Student); Ruth McRoy, Social Work; Lynn Miller, Communication Studies; Carmelina Cutro Albino, FL; Jean Andrews, Community; Jacqueline Angel, LBJ Leslie Moore, Educational Psychology; Patricia Morrison, Community; Betty School; Katie Arens, Germanic Languages; Cheryl Armbrust, Community; Judith Nunley, African and African American Studies; Karen Nunley, Community; Bailey, Community; Nancy Baker Jones, Community; Suzanne Barber, Electrical Mary O’Grady, UT Alumna; Pat Oxford, UT System Board of Regents; Beatriz and Computer Engineering; Ann R. Barker, Community; Peg Berdahl, Honorary Pappas, Community; Caren Phelan, Community; Austin and Irene Phelps, Member; Jan Beyer, Management; Rebecca Bigler, Psychology; Mary Blitch, Community; Vijaya Ramachandran, Computer Sciences; Linda Reichi, Honorary Member; Dorothy Blodgett, Community; Terrell Blodgett, Professor Physics; Ann Reynolds, Art and Art History; Helen Reynolds, PA; Karen E. Emeritus; Carla Blumberg, Former Austinite; Laura Burney, San Antonio; Illene Rhodes, CA; Ann Richards, Community; Victoria Rodriguez, LBJ School; Busch-Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Karen Rossman, WA; Mary Sanger, Community; Alexander Schilt, Houston English; Susan Cassano, Community; Frances Cushing, Community; Jess Community; Mariellen Schwentker, Community; Barbara Shaw Alford, Chapin, UT Alumna; Chris Cowden, Women & Their Work; Shannon Davies, Community; Faegheh Shirazi-Mahajan, Middle Eastern Language and Community; Desley Deacon, American Studies; Miriam DeFord, Community; Culture; Martha E. Smiley, Former UT System Regent and Friend of Women’s Millie Douglas, Community; Laurie Eiserloh, UT Alumna; Donald L. Evans, Studies; Justice Bea Ann Smith, Third District, Texas Court of Appeals; Chairman, UT System Board of Regents; Rolland Fellows, Community; Elizabeth Carlota Smith, Linguistics; Sherry Smith, Community; Janet Taylor Spence, Fernea, English; Priscilla and Peter T. Flawn, Former UT President and Psychology; Janet Staiger, RTF; Bill Stott, AMS; Sharen Strover, RTF; President ad-interim; Betty Sue Flowers, English; Forbidden Fruit, Community; Teresa Sullivan, VP & Dean, Graduate Studies; Cathy Surra, Human Ecology; Carol Fredericks, Community; James Garrison, Chair, English; Lucia & Jack Janet Swaffar, Germanic Languages; Ellen Temple, Former UT System Gilbert, Ed. Psych. & Chemistry; Melissa C. Gilbert, CA; Katherine Giltinan, Art Regent and Friend of Women’s Studies; Jan Todd, Kinesiology & Health Education (UT Graduate Student); Sue Grobe, Nursing; Barbara Harlow, English; Education; Kathryn Tulios, Friend of Women’s Studies; Karen Uhlenbeck, Harriett Harrow, Community; Hillary Hart, Civil Engineering; Susan Heinzelman, Mathematics; Melba Vasquez, Community; Genevieve Vaughan, Foundation English; Diane Henson, Community; Allison Hewitt, Development Office; Martha for a Compassionate Society; Dr. Niki Vick, Community; Lorraine Walker, Hilley, Music; Joanna Hitchcock, UT Press; Martha Hudson, Community; Ted Huston, Human Ecology; Luci Baines Johnson, Community; Theresa Kelley, Nursing; Ellen Wartella, Dean, College of Communication; Melba Whatley, English; Ronya Kozmetsky, Community; Berf Kreitier, Friend of Women’s Community; Robert Williams, Mathematics; Debbie Winegarten, Community; Studies; Judy Langlois, Psychology; Alice Lawler, Community; Laura Lein, Ruthe Winegarten, Friend of Women’s Studies; Zipporah Wiseman, Law Social Work; George Lenox, Honorary Member; Carol MacKay, English; School; and Susan Zachos, Friend of Women’s Studies.

Susan Sage Heinzelman presents Scottie Buehler with the Romero Award. Give to CWGS Our Student Awards are made possible by gifts from various donors. We invite all members of the community who are concerned with gender equity and the issues facing women, girls, and families to support our programs.

If you would like to make a gift, please mail your pledge to: Kathleen Aronson Director of Development and Alumni Relations College of Liberal Arts GEB 4.308 The University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712

Please indicate your gift is for the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies. Thank you for your support! You can invest in the Center and provide opportunities to students and faculty through either planned giving or outright gifts that often carry special tax incentives. You may also e-mail Kathleen Aronson at [email protected] or call 512 475-9763 to Graduate Students: receive more information. The Temple Award for support of research in the study of the history of U.S. Women (preference to Texas History) was given to Lilia Roquel D. Rosas for (De)sexing Prostitution: Race, Politics, Student Awards and the Reform of Sex Work in Progressive San Antonio, 1889-1920. An honorable mention for the Temple Award was given to Anastasia Coon for Gracie and Rose. CWGS is proud to announce the recipients of our student awards for 2005-2006. The Dissertation Fellowship was awarded to Sandra Benavides- Vaello for The Interplay of Diabetes, Culture and Food for Undergraduate Students: Mexican-American Women. Carolyn Cunningham was awarded The Peña Award for earning a distinction in Women's and as a Dissertation Fellowship honorable mention for her work, Gender Studies scholarship and service was given to Anya Rous. Gender, Technology and Media Production. The Romero Award, honoring a paper which contributes to increased understanding of the intersection between race, Information and next year’s applications will be available here: ethnicity and gender- was given to Contraception and Identity Construction: Family Planning Policy in Egypt by Scottie Buehler. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/awards/

11 CWGS STUDENTS PRESENT AT CONFERENCES You are cordially Sonia Montoya: -1st Annual Chicana/o Summer Institute Conference at Western New Mexico invited to the University (Silver City, NM) - June 13-15. Center for Women’s and -North American Labor History Conference, co-sponsored by Industrial Relations at Wayne State University and the Labor and Working Class History Association. (Detroit) -!October 19-21, 2006. Gender Studies

Rebecca Moody: Annual Fall Reception. -- June 2006, WOCMES2 (The Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies), Amman, Jordan September 2006

-- August 2006, "A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Date & Time TBA Bible," King's College, London

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